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The Skeptic

Posted 24 February 2006 - 11:22 AM

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If I understand correctly there are 2 items which were not checked yet. first and most important, the power supply unit. The fact that voltages are OK does not mean that the psu will work well under heavy load. When you run games you draw a lot of current (fans, HD, video card, cpu, memory etc.). Try to replace it temporarily with another unit and check.

The second item is the hard disk. I noticed that you have to disks. Go to the site of the manufacturer of the disk on which the operating system is installed, download a diagnostic program and check the disk.

If after checking and rectifying these two items the computer still fails, then I would suspect either the motherboard or the cpu. Whatever the case the problems looks like a hardware one.

gerryf

Posted 24 February 2006 - 11:26 AM

You are correct...nothing on the power supply has been tested, and that is a solid option even when all else points to memory. There are times when nothing else makes sense, check the power supply.

The manual I have for this motherboard puts the vcore setting on the same page as Chipset. I was going to suggest bumping the vcore up, but since our manuals do not match, I am not certain what our options are

jasonhnf

Posted 24 February 2006 - 11:29 AM

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okay sorry the Configure SDRAM by SPD was set to Enable.. i wrote down Disabled for some reason... i doubled check to see if everything else was correct that i wrote down... and it is... i enabled the usb legacy support and the vcore is not listed on there...

jasonhnf

Posted 24 February 2006 - 11:32 AM

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If I understand correctly there are 2 items which were not checked yet. first and most important, the power supply unit. The fact that voltages are OK does not mean that the psu will work well under heavy load. When you run games you draw a lot of current (fans, HD, video card, cpu, memory etc.). Try to replace it temporarily with another unit and check.

how would i replace it? i'm good with computers and how they work and how to install drives and pci cards and memory and all that... but i have never dealt with power before... is there a site that shows step by step how to do that... cause i'm confussed by what i quoted

gerryf

Posted 24 February 2006 - 11:35 AM

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a power drive is held in the case with 4 screws. It is connected to the motherboard by a group of wires in a plastic plug-in that is latched. Depress the latch, remove the power supply, insert a new power supply.

It is also connected to the machines drives by 4-wires that run into a plastic plug--these simply pull out. The floppy drive connection needs to be lifted ever sol slightly, since it has a notch on the bottom

http://img523.images...3/8237/23my.jpgthe spare one that i had... and it was connected to the motherboard with these cables... of course i didn't check it till AFTER i installed it into the computer i have now

and also the PSU that was in the original was REALLY dusty... so i took it apart and cleaned it out a bit... well the only way i could really by blowing on it hard to get rid of all the dust lol and i cleaned out the fan part too real well... i don't knwo if that will make a difference or not.

jasonhnf

Posted 24 February 2006 - 02:04 PM

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they are and yeah sorry about the picture size! i have not figured out how to make the res. on my camera phone pictures any bigger >_< i'm sure there is a way... i just dont know it yet lol and yeah it does go by %... i'll bump it up to 10percent and see what that does.

jasonhnf

Posted 24 February 2006 - 02:17 PM

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okay so changed it to 10percent on the Vcore... and i tried that controller config thing again *don't get mad i had to take it from the corner! lol* and i tested each button and everything and didn't crash once which is a very good sign... i even started pressing like all the buttons at the same time and a bunch a time to put it over the edge to see if it would crash... and it didn't... so far so good... but i'll report back if my computer crashes on me again... i'm ganna try and install the sims now and play it for a bit and see if it runs smoothly or not